Alysha Zambra was travelling on a number 15 bus with her mother, Stacie, when the terrifying incident occurred.
Stacie, who is from Crumlin, told the Irish Mirror that she and her daughter had just sat down on the bus when the little one started crying. When Stacie looked, she saw that Alysha’s finger was bleeding.
“We always go and sit at the back. I go in the middle and the kids sit either side of me. I just glanced out the window and when I turned, Alysha’s finger was pumping with blood and I saw a needle on the ground,” recalled a distraught Stacie.
Luckily, five inspectors were waiting at the next stop, and an ambulance was called right away. Little Alysha was then brought to Crumlin Children’s Hospital, where numerous tests were carried out.
The tot has since been released, but her mother has a worrying wait ahead of her.
“We have to wait and see for the HIV tests to come back. But to know that my daughter put the finger on something that was stuck into someone’s vein makes me sick,” said Stacie.
She added: “No parent should ever have to go through this. This country is ruined by heroin…When I saw the colour of what was in the needle, I nearly passed out.”
A spokesperson for Dublin Bus has confirmed that an investigation is now underway.
“Our Operations control will have to investigate what happened. We will need more time to find out what exactly happened,” they said.
Our thoughts are with Stacie and Alysha after their awful ordeal.
